Re: Bug#175187: This bug should be fixed on boot-floppies side

[Adam DiCarlo <aph@debian.org>]

Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 07:40:24PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > I don't really like the way the amount of packages debootstrap installs is
> > increasing, but that probably has to be done...
> > There probably needs to be a long-sought distinction between 
> > "base system"
> > and 
> > "installation system"
> 
> There isn't a distinction: "base" is precisely what is needed for an
> "installation". There is a distinction between "required" (cf "essential")
> and "base", though.
> 
> The current way we describe "base" isn't really great, but it's what we've
> got. Seems to make the most sense to add "eject" to base on all arches.

Yes, absolutely.

These are the types of sets as I understand them:

  install-core
       -- what is needed on install media for creating a
          self-bootstrapping system on some other media
          (defined by boot-floppies and debian-installer)
  base
       -- what is needed for a self-bootstraping system
          (defined by debootstrap)
  required
       -- packaged flagged as required
          (defined by the archive)
  ...


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